Guillermo del Toro: 'Orphanage remake will be different'

Guillermo del Toro has claimed that his planned remake of Spanish horror The Orphanage will be true to his original vision.

The director produced the 2007 film which centres on a mother who loses her ill, adopted son in an eerie house, haunted by its former occupants.

del Toro told Fangoria: "Even when we produced the Spanish movie, I had intended to remake it because we had a very different screenplay that, because of money and time, got turned into the movie you saw - which is great, but there was this other structure for the original script that I wanted to try.

"So even before we shot the first film it was an economic decision, a pre-existing creative decision, to change it.

"We have Mark Pellington attached as director - I'm a big fan of his The Mothman Prophecies and his video work - and we are out to actors, so we're hoping to get things going soon."